>c-cipher crammed like 8 ni&&as into the back of that cruiser
>at the end of "the message" video....lol
>
>on the reals..that very song (and video) ushered in the "keep
>it real" element (thats now clished) into hip-hop..i remember
>how momdukes and them reacted when it first came out..i ain't
>quite 30, but i remember new york..when it was REALLY new
>york..
>
>melle mel is one of my heroes...along with slick rick and
>ghostface..i just aint f'ing with some of mel's comments cause
>he should know better than to dis drug dealers like he ain't
>toot a line or two in his day...furthermore, I KNOW FOR A FACT
>mel is a product or student of a higher level of
>consiousness..so for him to call out ni&&as who hustle wasn't
>really that cool....mel knows that both the dealer and user
>are victims to the same babylonian oppression or 1st and 2nd
>circuit mentality, if you will....mel knows that reaganomics
>(oliver north traded drugs for guns and money in a trianlge
>with russia and the islamic jihad--the EXACT same guns they've
>given to my people in africa to kill my people)....my
>bad...when people bring up drugs...i lose it! cause all the
>shit in todays music and all that shit they so-called "fuckin
>up hip-hop" ..all that shit is merely a symptom of march
>larger issues..issues that we aint gonna fix on okayplayer or
>myspace, by the way....ok enough


Realest shit in a minute. Not to abandon the issue, but True school didn't fall off because of shoddy business practices. Ya'lll were playing to that Frankie Crocker/ downtown crowd and sniffing more cocaina than Rick James and Ike Turner combined.When things got crictical, some even turned into everything you proselytized on in your mission statement.Thank you for this genetic code , but even man evolved from the Cro-Magnun into what we are now.